If you are not going through this stage currently, then you have already experienced it. You are not alone. It is a normal reaction to be angry that you suffer from mental illness. I am just getting over being angry at my diagnoses and I am beginning to get comfortable in my own "bipolar skin". The most important thing is to realize this simple fact, you are not mentally ill. That is not you. It does not define who you are. You happen to suffer from a mental illness.
There is a huge difference. Just like someone with diabetes or cancer, they are not cancer or diabetes, they suffer from these diseases. Mental illness is no different from any other physical illness. If you can come to this realization, then coping with your illness will begin to be much easier.
In the book Facing Bipolar, they point out that this stage of anger generally leads to feelings of hopelessness. The hopelessness stage will put you on the downward spiral down the continuum to depression. In tomorrow's blog entry. I will get into the subject of the feelings that we get of hopelessness. We are always on an up and down roller coaster and the feelings of hopeless will no doubt come up.
If you are a teen or a young adult or are the parent of one, I highly recommend the book Facing Bipolar. It lays down the truth about Bipolar Disorder in layman's terms. There is no big terms that are understandable to mental health clinicians, it is for the general public.
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